St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-09
WITH McGILL,s AUTOGRAPH.
Some of The Most Interesting Bills
which Bear the Governors sigma

ture.
Exactly 7O9 bills passed both houses and
have gone to the governor. of which 302
were senate bills and 407 house bills. Dur
ing the session five were vetoed and eleven
were recalled for amendment. Among the
most important bills approved yesterday
were the Whiteman election bill, the pro-
posed constitutional amendment for ben-
mails essionS of ninety legislative days, the
house bill prohibiting contract convict labor,
and Senator POpes bill transferring the old
Minneapolis 81 st. Cloud land grant 10 the
Duluth, st. Cloud, Mankato Southern.
The governor says there is constitutional
question involved in the land grant transfer
bill similar to the one two years ago. In the
case of the transfer of the Duluth & Winni-
peg grant to the Brainerd 81 Northwestern,
but as the people of the southwest part of
the state are very much interested in the
transfer III order to get road through to
Duluth, the governor has decided not to
tackle the constitutional question, preferr-
ing to leave the matter for the courts to set
tie, He said: I'm the interest of the peo-
pie of the southwest have decided to ap-
prove the bill" The constitutional ques-
ton is that raised by Senator Ives, of st.
Peter-whether. under section 2, OF article
s, of the state constitution, any lands
which accrues to the state can be apprOpri-
ated to any other purpose than for the ben
eft of the schools and charitable inStitu-
tons of the state.
Of interest to bankers is the approval of
Senator Keller's two bills-One, on Public
Examiner KnOX's recommendation, pre-
venting private banks from doing business
under corporate names; the other, allowing
banks with only $40, 900 capital stock to in
corporate. The house bills preventing ANY
higher rate of interest upon contracts after
the date they become DUE and limiting the
legal existence of chattel mortgages to two
years. were approved yesterday. Agricul-
turalists will probably rejoice to hear that
the drainage districts gopher and black
bird bounties, eXempting agricultural So
cieties from taxation, preventing frauds by
tree peddlerS and nurSerymen bills have
been approved, also the bill for the furnish
ing Of seed grain TO the hail-stricken coun-
ties of Marshall, Big Stone, Lac qui Parle,
Swift, Norman. Chippewa, Becker and
Wilkn. and jewellers in hotels and restaur-
| ants will have the same degree OF JOY to
hear that the governors signature has been
attached to the bill requiring hotelkeepers,
restaurateurs and boarding house keepers
to mark adulterated butter and other art-
Giles of food with conspicuous letters when
ever such bogus edibles appear upon. the
table. The bill will require railroad COM
panies to take the same precaution with
food used in dining ears. DR.. Woods two
bills requiring the use of unclaimed bodies
of convcts and paupers to be given over to
the purposes of medical science, and pro-
vding for the collection of vital statistics,
were signed. The bills requiring railroad
companies to build and repair highway
crossings and regulating the rate OF trans
portation for mixed carloads of live stock
also bear the governors signature.